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The Peckham Experiment

The Peckham Experiment
  • Author(s): Guy Ware
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - 2017

Guy Ware’s new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical...

The Road Home

The Road Home
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who – dreaming of the wealthy West – lives...

The Stargazers

The Stargazers
  • Author(s): Harriet Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead, West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1950s/1970s

It’s the 1970s, and Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury memories of her childhood: the constant fear, the horror of her school days, and Fane, the vast, crumbling house that was the sole obsession of her mother,...

The Stars’ Tennis Balls

The Stars’ Tennis Balls
  • Author(s): Stephen Fry
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s forward

Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet. He is handsome, talented and about to go to Cambridge, after which he is expected to follow his father into politics. But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school...

The Stolen Girl

The Stolen Girl
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), London, Udupi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘Your mother has been arrested. She stole you.’ For as long as thirteen-year-old Diya can remember, it’s always been just her and her mum, Vani. Despite never staying in one place long enough to call it home, with her...

The Street Party

The Street Party
  • Author(s): Claire Seeber
  • Location(s): West London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The party was supposed to be the highlight of the summer. If only I’d known that night would destroy our lives… All the neighbours were laughing, drinking out of plastic glasses and getting along. I almost felt happy. Almost...

The Traitor

The Traitor
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

LONDON. EARLY MORNING. A body is found in a padlocked suitcase. Investigator Emma Makepeace knows it’s murder. And it’s personal. She quickly establishes that the dead man had been shadowing two oligarchs suspected of procuring illegal weapons in the...

The Whalebone Theatre

The Whalebone Theatre
  • Author(s): Joanna Quinn
  • Location(s): Dorset, France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919 to WW2

Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place...

This Book Made Me Think of You

This Book Made Me Think of You
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): North London, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The unforgettable new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Libby Page Twelve stories. Twelve months. Once chance to heal her heart… When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her fiancé waiting for her at...

Tuesday Falling

Tuesday Falling
  • Author(s): S Williams
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering....

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